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Xref: sserve comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:2709 comp.os.linux.development:1156 comp.os.minix:22680 comp.periphs:4319 comp.unix.bsd:12638 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:4401 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:68247 comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware:4226 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!info.curtin.edu.au!mackinla From: mackinla@cs.curtin.edu.au (Pat Mackinlay) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.minix,comp.periphs,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware Subject: Re: Test of the Intel 8254 shut-down/parity-check command Date: 17 Sep 93 09:29:21 GMT Organization: Curtin University of Technology Lines: 25 Message-ID: <telnet.748258161@marsh> References: <jmonroyCDDv9y.Ew4@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lillee.cs.curtin.edu.au jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: > This is a condensed version of the posting. Although you wouldn't know it... [much crap deleted] > What does this prove? Mainly that Jesus Monroy Jr doesn't know what else to do with his time but annoy others. Does he *REALLY* think that people in all the groups posted to give a flying fig about their DRAM refresh timing? Even if they did, it's more likely they'd find what they needed from an Intel tech. reference... > Namely that the RAM refresh is controllable via > the i8254 timer on the IBM/ISA architecture. Gee duh, and all this time I thought my mouse controlled my refresh... Will someone shut this guy up? -- Pat -- Alien lands on head, gives birth to mutant.